Team Portal Members

WHO WE ARE
The Baylor College of Medicine portal team is an interdisciplinary team comprised of software engineers, bioinformaticians, and laboratory and research experts in the development and use of patient-derived xenografts (PDX). These three teams have jointly worked to design and implement a software portal which supports the management of PDX models and the dissemination of these models to the biomedical research community. Initially prototyped with breast cancer, the portal now includes PDX models representing many cancer types and will be expanding to include data from PDX teams across Texas. The portal team efforts are funded with generous support from the state of Texas in the form of a Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT #RP220646) grant. Please feel free to contact us with questions regarding use of and or participation in this portal.
MEET OUR TEAM
Michael T. Lewis, PhD
PROFESSOR
Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Lacey E. Dobrolecki, MS
CORE DIRECTOR – PDX CORE
Advanced Technology Cores
Baylor College of Medicine
John D. Landua, MS
ASSISTANT LABORATORY DIRECTOR
Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Ana Hernandez-Herrera, PhD
PROJECT MANAGER – PDX CORE
Advanced Technology Cores
Baylor College of Medicine
Heidi Dowst
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Apollo McOwiti
SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Kerri Zheng
SR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Andrew J. Madrid
PROGRAMMER/ANALYST
Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center
Baylor College of Medicine

Ram Srinivasan, MS
BIOINFORMATICS PROGRAMMER
Advanced Technology Cores
Baylor College of Medicine
ALUMNI MEMBERS
Chad Shaw - Associate Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics/Shaw Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
David Henke - Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, Shaw Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Bing Zhang - Professor, Breast Center/Zhang Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Suhas Vasaikar - Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, Zhang Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Chen Huang - Postdoctoral Associate, Zhang Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Maria Cardenas - Bioinformatics Programmer, Wheeler Lab, Baylor College of Medicine